Thursday, March 21, 2013

Really stepping outside one's comfort zone

I follow a writer's blog, which ought to be of no surprise. If you like said author, you should follow them like love struck puppy. Okay, maybe not. But let's not get too distracted.

In one of his entries he talks about listening to a particular band he gets to listen to regularly, as the venue they play in is only three hours away. Evidently his wife introduced him to the band, as the genre the band played in wasn't his usual cup of tea. Consequently, he was glad that he had been introduced as he has fallen in love with the band.

To a certain extent that is me and ballet.

When I was younger, the idea of going to the ballet or sinfonia was definitely not cool.


Last night I went to see to see three world premiers rolled into one show; essentially three performances done by the Royal New Zealand Ballet. It was a nice mix of traditional ballet, alternative dance and some fantastic story telling using music, movement, lighting and props (or lack thereof). What impressed me though was the amount of people younger then me going to such a thing, who actually outnumbered the oldies. After all, with the way entertainment is going high-tech the theatre would be the last place to find someone in their teens or twenties, right? Wrong.

Shows like the ballet allows us to loose ourselves in a world outside our own, where graceful movement is prominant and the music dating back to the Italian Renaissance, Czarist Russia and good ol' France. Not only was the music drawing you in, but so were the dancers, and no amount of special effects would be able to replicate the awesomeness that the show was.

Does this mean I like ballet now? Definitely!


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